This song pretty much sounds like mid-80s Depeche Mode, but I like it.

Weird as it might sound, this song is about a guy suffering from schizophrenia, describing his thoughts as a patient in a psychiatric ward, looking back at his normal life before that. Really unusual topic, but it was a huge hit in 1981 in Germany.

This was one of the first hit records of the so called "Neue Deutsche Welle" - "New Wave of German pop music", with artists like Trio ("Dadada"), Nena ("99 Luftballons") and Falco ("Rock me Amadeus") being part of it, to name a few who even had international success with German lyrics. Usually, contemporary pop is dominated by the English language, too. The early 80s, though, where an era, when a much more modern German pop music took off for a couple of years, and quite a lot of people still have fond memories of that time, roughly between 1981 and 1984.